III-OSINT-Module 6A: The Internet, its Structure and Investigation Opportunities

Introduces the Internet and how it developed and explains its structure and the investigative opportunities with live on-line demonstrations of the processes to investigate IP Addresses & Domain Names.

TRAINING OBJECTIVES

Introducing the structure of the Internet, with an overview of how it is managed and with explanations of the III (OSINT) investigative opportunities available to the practitioner.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The practitioner will have a general understanding of the structure of the internet and the capability to investigate certain assets within that structure to identify entities and people.

PUBLIC AUTHORITY / PRIVATE SECTOR DIFFERENTIATION

Module 6 Part A does differentiate but only in the Live Online Training, where investigation opportunities that are available only to Law Enforcement officers are introduced.

MODULE CONTENTS

ORIGINS OF THE INTERNET

ARPANET

 

GOVERNANCE OF THE INTERNET

IANA

ICANN

REGIONAL INTERNET REGISTRIES

 

THE INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP)

IP ADDRESSES

IP VERSION 4

IP VERSION 6

RESERVED IP ADDRESSES

INTERNAL IP ADDRESSES

OTHER RESERVED IP ADDRESSES

 

RESEARCHING IP ADDRESSES

REVERSE DNS LOOKUP

LAW ENFORCEMENT REQUESTS

 

DOMAIN NAMES

DOMAIN VELOCITY

STRUCTURE OF A DOMAIN NAME

SUB DOMAINS

 

DOMAIN NAME VARIETY

TOP LEVEL DOMAINS (TLDs)

GENERIC TOP LEVEL DOMAINS (gLTDs)

The .INT TLD

BRAND ngTLDs

SPONSORED TLDs

GEOGRAPHIC TLDs

INTERNATIONALIZED DOMAIN NAMES (IDNs)

IDNS & HOMOGRAPH ATTACKS

COUNTRY CODE TLDs (ccTLDs)

NATIONAL INTERNET REGISTRIES (NIRs)

LOCAL INTERNET REGISTRIES (LIRs)

POPULAR ccTLDs

SECOND LEVEL DOMAINS (SLDs)

UK DOMAIN NAMES

NOMINET REQUESTS

NOMINET SUSPENSIONS

SREGISTRANT OBFUSCATION & THE DOMAIN REGISTRATION PROCESS

SUMMARISING DOMAINS

 

THE DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM

COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS

THE HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL

FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL

UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATORS

SUMMARY

VARIETY & VELOCITY

 

RESEARCHING DOMAIN NAMES

REGISTRATION, WHOIS AND THE GDPR

DOMAIN REGISTRARS

STAND ALONE WHOIS RESOURCES

All Parts of Module 6
CPD Credits: 5 Hours
Duration:

Preparation (PDF): 02:00

Live Online Training: 02:30

Module Assessment: 00:30

CPD Certificate:

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